well. today on our two russian president vladimir putin signs a bill banning americans from adopting russian orphans his reasons and what critics of the new bill are saying next. one day will be able to actually have choice we could just was forever and not have children. a trans human future might not be science fiction some artificial i have to chip in our brains it seems man is not too far off from meeting his match we'll show you what the future could hold when it comes to machines. and this isn't a scene out of a hit 1980's movie robo cop it's an l.a.

police exit vision showing what the u.s. police force could look like in the next decade ahead what you need to know about the possibility of un man the police cars. it's friday december twenty eighth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. . well today russian president vladimir putin signed a law banning american parents from adopting russian children it could affect hundreds of american families seeking to adopt the u.s. state department is saying the ban is politically motivated but it comes after cases of american adoptive parents abusing their children mira rebin is the author of the stork market america's multi-billion dollar unregulated adoption industry she spoke to r.t. about the issue. a lot of the cases have gotten very very light sentences for

the caretakers whether forster or adoptive of russian children here in the united states but we certainly have no idea how many children are enduring abuses surviving abuses of all kinds the children that died at the hands of their adoptive parents were tortured in some horrendous ways they were sexually abused they were burnt they were starved they were cage to ever any conceivable kind of torture one human being could inflict on another was done to these children so these were the parents that were caught and prosecuted nineteen how many more there's there's absolutely no way of knowing the united states has no system of follow up on adoptions one sin adoption is finalized the child is considered as if born to that family. that was mary of an author of the stork market america's

multi-billion dollar unregulated adoption industry. switching gears now technology is advancing exponentially before a very eyes our computers phones and other gadgets are getting faster smaller more powerful now machines are being used to improve the human body but where do we draw the line between man and machine a scientific community believes the two will become one in just a few decades r.t. takes a look now at what a trans humanists world will look like. it sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. we can rebuild. we have the technology. we have the capability to make the world first by mixing man and machine to enhance the human body was for the better stronger but a scientific community believes it will become a reality in the coming decades beatrice ray kurzweil predicts the year twenty

forty five will be the technological tipping point he's an award winning scientist and engineer a millionaire several times over because of his invention kurz wells theory as chronicled in film director barry to tell me his transcendent man something radical is going to happen because our technology is speeding up we think that this is going to stop we're going to hit a wall somewhere while technology is advancing at an exponential rate for example just a few decades ago the fire power in this iphone once took up entire rooms but with technology rapidly getting faster and smaller it's believe that the hardware and this phone will be able to fit into our blood cells the vast supercomputers of the future only twenty years from now will actually be in our bloodstream will be in our brains of every internet connection transhumanist enthusiastic believe it will transform life as we know a. disease. to illness and providing material.

that's not very. these as in away from aging process is that means not only finding the fountain of youth but each even immortality it gives people like matthew deutsch's that fear death some hope one day we'll be able to actually have a choice or we could just live forever and not have children if he dies he says he plans to have his body preserved until science can revive him and allow him to live forever but others warn of the risk technology could fall into the hands of mad men

joel garo calls it the health scenario in that scenario what happens is that you create. viruses and diseases that can wipe out the human race another excuse used to track and control people the minute that happens then. we're never going to have much control over our future again but despite these scary possibilities transhumanist believers say the merging of man and machine is going to happen soon whether we want it to or not in washington liz wahl r.t. . what it's all about there's a blurring of lines between man and machine i was joined earlier by archie web producer andrew bullock well i mean we just saw the people here a little package there they're talking about you know having their heads cry when tragically for within the preserve till the end of time to make sure that they can get through it the right people i think this is a thousand of youth i mean we can actually advance our bodies so that we don't even

one day will we won't even get sick i think that's in science fiction for like the last century so people are actually saying it's about to happen you know maybe it's just my own. refusal to take my own more mortality seriously by the always kind of penance for all but the idea of being able to live forever but i feel like humans have been fascinated with that yet so i'm not the only ones who are not i was the weirdo. growing up i was always you know i'd never read that much science fiction i was into that idea of being able to create this biopic android or cyborg or whatever that would be able to to to get past the shortcomings that there are bodies have. forced us to develop and even this conversation sounds ludicrous that we just saw you know that means ray kurzweil he's here very a renowned future as inventor and he's saying you know we're actually not too far off from this being a reality just go back to last couple of decades look at the investments in

prosthetic limbs and eyes and what we've been able to see you know the medical community and the engineering community come together and actually make it so that people who have lost a body parts can just surpass these boundaries these obstacles that you know a few decades ago would have been unimaginable talking about you know actually entering bloodstream and actually automating breathing now through three machines so it's absolutely looks like it's going to be something that is going to be more and more mainstream as time progresses but obviously this is going to be technology that is going to have to be absolutely perfected before we actually rely on machines to do the living for us right now we just saw in that story there people kind of how do you mean then if it's saying that this could really be used to improve mankind on the other hand we had the that author and professor there are saying that you know this could get scary i need you you know you report a lot about. machines being able to get hacked. kind of this kind of doomsday of

of it turning around being able to control you or a it's i mean we already have like the websites for you know the country's top intelligence companies possibly getting under attack by teenage hackers and they were able. take them down and just you know with a couple clicks of a mouse and those are the top intelligence companies in the united states right now imagine if you actually put literally your life in the hands of robots how do you see it going to be to take that down you know it's going to be more than just a virus or disease it's going to be or i guess it would be a computer virus. absolutely and you know we are seeing and part of that that gentleman theory is that we are seeing it before our eyes acknowledging it advancing exponentially i mean we see these smartphones today what they can do i mean you know ten years ago twenty years ago you can even imagine this small gadget being able to have this much memory and fire power and capabilities and you know you can only imagine how far this is going to go i guess it brings up this next

question i mean how much is a can there be too much technology where do you draw the line i mean especially when you're talking about merging it with the human body i mean i think that is going to have to be a moral debate that someone way more qualified than either you or me is going to be able to handle but look let's look at drones for example let's look at these automated room remote controlled killing machines that can be sent thousands of miles across the world and be used by people right here in the united states to gun down suspected insurgents and actually kill people without ever seeing them face to face being in the same country or continent as them so we're already through we're already able to extend ourselves outward by using machines in order to do things as take away lives it shouldn't be that farfetched that we're going to be able to create lives like you said i could only imagine what with the unabomber theodore kaczynski with think of all this you know it's only been twenty years since they caught him in a little shack in the woods you know trying to run away from technology confused

already terrified of the way things were advancing that we didn't have smartphones we didn't really have cell phones at the time not that i'm really thinking about the unabomber that much but it's amazing to think. just in our generation just going back to the light you see what we see happening in terms of old medicine engineering. we're going to turn now to a field of work that may be replaced at least in part by machines rescue drones and unmanned motorcycles are just some of the tools u.s. police force may soon have in their arsenal in fact some car makers hope to replace comp cars with drones by the year two thousand and twenty five are teaser mungle and zero shows us how driverless cars cars could change the roads of tomorrow. from trick sports cars to onboard computers the future in automobiles was on full display at the twenty twelve l.a.

auto show the most advanced concepts give a glimpse of how the traditional police cruiser could transform this subaru concept is an unmanned drone which can operate in the air and on land at a time of tight budgets this futuristic cop car could lead to much leaner police forces. as part of the auto shows design challenge some the world's largest automakers offer design concepts for a new form of highway patrol in the year two thousand and twenty five a majority of the designs involve drone technology which some find controversial i mean you want to look at nine hundred eighty four i think that's a really unique valid question privacy and safety concerns remain as more law enforcement agencies request permission for drones the b.m.w. concept is equipped with up to three drones when you get law enforcement agencies and you know more tools to pass without really thinking cations you can run problems but designers alternately believe that unmanned technology could lead to

better and more efficient policing there's a potential these could actually be safer for ice be perceived because the years or so up potentially smaller vehicles. squad cars themselves can sit back or you know fall back a little bit. young man police vehicles may even be able to rescue people at sea like in many industries mechanization has the potential to reduce the number of actual police officers needed however some industry experts believe it will be a while before cops need to worry about their jobs i do think it's you know it's a factor. but i would say probably you know at the minimum twenty five years or you see a lot of means. on the road actually policing other parts designers at subaru are more optimistic pointing out that a lot of the technology in their concepts already exists. when you see the proliferation of viewing these internationally and. the use of this is the

beginning of use of a vehicle in america such as the google cars you see that is going to converge you know about ten years many local and state governments across the u.s. are already looking into unmanned aerial vehicles making it more likely these futuristic concepts will become reality in the coming years in los angeles remote. can we once again to talk about the blurring lines between man and machine are two web producer andrew blake shared his thoughts in a few of his fears i first asked him what the difference between driverless cars cars and the drone technology we already have what it what the difference is that all the muscle systems more and more provide like we're already expecting thirty thousand pounds by the year twenty twentieth's. i've heard and we actually wrote about you know just lieberman was talking about we were about that archie dot com

a few weeks ago and how at the l.a. auto show when they asked these big auto manufacturers you know what do you envision for the police patrol car of the future it seems like so many of them were just like defaulted to saying it's going to be drone technology it's going to be unmanned aerial vehicles that are going to be able to be dispatched you know either by hand or shot off of another police car and that's going to be able to be deployed to be able to track down anyone anywhere so it's the same kind of technology we're seeing right now where you're able to put a device into the sky in this can be able to let the police or whoever can control it who are going to have to be given. to look down and see whatever they want and there's tons of fourth amendment questions that are being raised by that but it seems like the manufacturers and the law enforcement agencies who are curious about these types of devices aren't really all that concerned the time being they're saying well we're seeing an increasing cry of how we're going to curb that we're just going to have to do what's necessary by all means necessary so it's the same kind of technology that we're seeing now but it's only going to get more and more

advanced as time goes on like we just talked about a minute ago we've seen how how technology in the terms of you know making humans biopic has just amounted so greatly here in the last few years so it's it's kind of scary if you ask me but absolutely not that i'm likely you had mentioned the fourth amendment rights concerns can you talk more about that privacy concerns associate with having things like this like the unmanned police cars and that we just saw in that studio privacy concerns about having t. think victrola our our street sure i mean in fact just earlier this month the supreme court here in washington weighed in on two particular cases involving the use of police dogs in order to carry out a search of a suspect home and the supreme court looked at two different cases and had to consider well when does bringing a dog to someone's house constitute a search when when does that you know we start sniffing is that and. and the police can actually start asking questions or is it a search unto itself so we're already being stuck with these really hard questions

you know regarding a two hundred year old bill of rights putting into perspective but with dogs we have those kind of questions when we're worried about dogs i can only imagine it's going to be another two hundred years or so they'll be asking ourselves questions about you know what kind of issues we have with giant robots flying around in the skies there are going to be really serious questions because you know drones can shoot up thousands of feet in the sky they can look down they can zoom in and read the data off of a milk carton from thousands of feet above the air transport that to some sort of information center on the other side of the world process that set of commands to someone else to either go in there rest that person or fire a missile like we see overseas right now so there's all sorts of concerns about maybe having too much technology there too much technology that's interesting you know you had mentioned the tens of thousands of drones projected to be and our

skies this is the kind of drone that is on land and you know with drones being more prevalent it makes you wonder if people are just going to get used to having this technology around and they're going to be like hey you know. an unmanned police car they're just going to be using the idea i've already seen that are you know that's the time yeah you know i've already seen the argument come up in the. inevitable i mean today i know this is completely different different target or tangent but today we saw the foreign intelligence surveillance act renewed for

another five years and that's something that it seems every privacy act in america was concerned about and they were all just urging congress to go the other way and despite you know years and years of criticism congress went ahead and renewed it anyway so and we're not really hearing too much about it but we are going to get to that later on in the show andrea thanks so much for weighing and that was our huge lead producer and her blake. one hundred nine years ago the wright brothers celebrated their first flight the corporate space travel group space x. celebrated with the launch of its highest test rocket to date the grasshopper. you are looking at the grasshopper take a twelve story leave been a top flight recently and gregor texas the grasshopper is a fully controllable and reusable first stage launch vehicle for future trips to orbit and beyond this launch reach one hundred thirty one feet and lasted twenty

nine seconds before returning back to its launch pad if you look closely you can see a cowboy mannequin the space x. founder says i got to hop on the grasshopper in order to provide a sense of scale space experts believe the key to keeping the cost of space launches down is to make more of the launch vehicle reusable. also ahead here on r t despite the last ditch effort from several u.s. senators the warrantless wiretapping bill known as. has been extended what this means for your privacy next.

let me let me or you will let me ask you. on this morning is what we're having the debate we are going. through this it was the right thing there again you're it. or it will be i don't i even talk about theory let me. ask you i think. i am. sick sick.

to distract us from what you and i should care about because there are profit driven industry that sells us sensationalistic garbage because of breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break this that. or the so. a controversial bill with major implications for your privacy passed the senate today the foreign intelligence surveillance act allows the government to wiretap american citizens living abroad without a warrant here's a few things you should know about this legislation it was first signed into law in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight a two thousand and eight amendment allows the n.s.a. to wiretap conversations on u.s. citizens phones without a warrant it was set to expire on new year's eve but passed in the senate today

with bipartisan support in a seventy three to twenty three vote so that means it will be extended for another five years senate opponents including rand paul ron wyden mark udall jeff merkley and mike lee were among the people speaking out against it here's part of senator wyden speech from last night he argued that we simply don't know enough about what the n.s.a. and other government organizations are doing with the information they collect. the five amendments act states that acquisitions made under section seven o two may not quote intentionally target the specific american and may not quote intentionally acquire communications that are known at the time of acquisition to be wholly domestic but mr president the problem with that is it still leaves a lot of room for circumstances under which americans phone calls and e-mails

including purely domestic phone calls and e-mails could be swept up and reviewed without a warrant. despite senator wyden and vocal criticism of syslog now goes to president obama for his signature critics of the law like the electronic frontier foundation say it violates american fourth amendment rights they say the government can get ahold of e-mails and phone calls without a warrant and without the person knowing about it none of the amendments proposed by senators to increase the bills transparency pass and with much of the media fixated on the fiscal cliff the controversial bill is likely to be renewed with little attention. and after the tragedy at sandy hook elementary school two weeks ago today there's been a huge push for more gun control and gun lovers have noticed there's been a significant increase in gun purchases these past two weeks are the corresponding guy and his you can take a look at this phenomenon about two weeks ago actually on this particular wall here

. they are four rows down four rows across. with everything going on in politics right now with the possible back and everything everyone is flooding in. purchasing right away gun stores all across the u.s. are reporting record sales. just two weeks after the tragic shooting at the elementary school in newtown americans are scrambling to buy the same type of weapon that adam lanza used in the connecticut shooting plus high capacity magazines and a lot of them panic buying triggered out of fear that the white house is out to ban the weapon but this time the words need to lead to action no a r fifteen for this customer all sold out at the store while prices on line have gone through the roof has been going for a thousand and fifteen hundred eight hundred dollars to twenty five hundred three

thousand dollars even in some cases it's just the most amazing gun buying spree i've ever seen many gun retailers now quite cynically refer to the administration ben talk as the obama girl doing that's how good it's been for their business so how do you go from a president with a tough gun control agenda to someone gun dealers call the greatest gun sales man in america manufactures of semi-automatic rifles were reported that their market has grown thirty percent over the last four years based like north carolina iowa and you to have seen a one hundred percent increase in gun sales over the same period in the wake of the tragedy newtown one of the country's biggest ammunition suppliers said they sold more than three years worth of magazines in just three days although president obama himself has so far failed to act on his pledge to ban assault weapons he's worse have certainly provoked action just not the type he may have wanted for someone they say is against our. own

a great job. maybe they should be a third term in order to sell even more weapons many dealers hype up the gone apocalypse scenario. and they would be very mentally. selling major stock not only stocks. but many of them don't actually see any drastic changes happening any. time soon after all any significant gun control measures adopted in the past ultimately clashed with the second amendment of the constitution and were subsequently grabbed. on to we would you i'm going to strike him. and out of los angeles where authority of god more than they bargained for at a gun buyback the city offered grocery store gift cards in exchange for guns but no question that some of the weapons in the exchange were quite questionable to say the least and addition to the more run of the mill firearms the l.a.p.d.

got two military grade rocket launchers during the exchange the weapons are designed to launch grenades though no such grenades were turned in during the gun buyback it's unclear how someone ended up with these rocket launchers in the first place police believe that the weapons may be family heirlooms or collectibles but gun buyback ultimately put two thousand and thirty seven firearms in the hands of authorities including seventy five assault weapons at times people waited in line for two hours to give their guns back the city even briefly ran out of gift cards but what will happen to the weapons collection all of them will be melted down including the who drop it launchers that's according to the mayor of los angeles but authorities said this wasn't the first time they ended up with a rocket launcher at a buyback makes you wonder just how many people have rocket launchers lying around their homes and we're going to leave it off there but for more on the stories we covered you could always check out our you tube channel.